Advice on getting rid of moles
 

We have a mole problem in our back yard , I'm afraid the little devils might kill our big willow tree. The dogs haven't gotten them yet, any advice on getting rid of them? Have heard of using black pepper, soda pop, vinegar and backing soda, garden hose and drowning them, cayanne pepper. Was curious on what others have done.

Call Bill?

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On a serious note I've heard poisoned worms work great.
I've got a bad mole problem and have been thinking about trying them

Lol! Yeah could give bill a try! Thought about poison , but with the dogs it would be a bad idea.

Spray area with Bifen XTS.
Kills virtually all insects including the grubs the moles are looking for.

Have you done the drowning with garden hose with the dogs waiting for them to pop out?
Our dogs went plum crazy everytime I drug the garden hose out for anything after the first wack-mole suicide by beagle event.

Guess I could try garden hose / 12ga 00 buckshot event! Except the neighbors might freak out! Lol

Thread I did on the same problem a while ago.
http://www.onlycubcadets.net/forum/s...ad.php?t=32721
I've pretty much killed the mole food supply. Not done yet but much better. Put this stuff on at about 4 times the recommended rate Spectracide Triazicide. Have to admit that the Rodenator sounded like fun.

our cat brings in one in at least every day....

I maintain the parks and cemetery for the city. I only use the poison worms, and they work great. Watch the mole hill areas, stick a screw down in the hole in multiple runs and make a hole. Flag each hole you make. Come back in 24 to 48 hours and check your flags. If the hole you made is fixed then it is an active run. Stick the screw driver back in the hole to make a small opening large enough to drop a worm in. I even go back and check in another 48 hours to see if the worm is gone. It is amazing how many worms they can eat. Also, wear rubber or latex gloves to hide your scent while doin this. The only time I have had trouble is with moles that don't go back any of their original mounds.

I hear if your rub some garlic on them they just go away.

I have one area that the little Bastar-s have made a mess of so they will get to meet the "Tiller" come spring time. Going to grind them into fertilizer. How do you like me now? :biggrin2:

laser surgery will get rid of most facial moles,in other areas it may be too dangerous if you know what I mean...

I've had good luck with the spiked traps that stab them. Find an active tunnel, push down a foot's width and set the trap. When they come back thru the tunnel and push the dirt up, the trap goes off and it's bye bye rodent.

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Always had good luck with a garden hose and my 22lr... but I'm also on the country so yea.... we used to use these traps at my mom's place. Kinda looked like a upside down mouse trap/foot clamp type thing. Find a active tunnel dig out a little spot push the trap in and when they run through it it would snap shut... worked pretty good but never as good as the 22

You's guys is gonna laugh @ this, but I swear it is the truth.
A couple of years ago I was mowing and noticed on the next round, that a "run" I just ran over and mashed down was now "repaired"!!
Well being able to add 2x2, I figured dat pesky mole I'd been trying to catch in spike traps was in between the previous "rounds"of the mower.
So I just shut if off and waited, looking for him to move the dirt up .
it was not but a few minutes or so when I saw the ground being humped up as he progressed.
I got off the mower walked to his trail and stomped his little arse with my steel toe Hytest work boots.:beerchug:
a stick digging a few inches along the burrow produced a warm, but dead star nosed mole.
That my friends is SATISFACTION!

Last year I tried rolling the mole runs with the roller & mashing them with the front tire of the cub where possible ,after just mowing.
Then setting the spike traps in fresh runs only.
Also have tried mashing the runs down as previously described, and waiting with a pitch fork.
I have only gotten 2, using that method, but it works.
Kind of like spearing for frogs, but without waders.:biggrin2:

My yard's a hillside; so the water just runs down the tunnel to the road. As much as I would enjoy some 20-guage or .22 action flooding 'em out won't do it!

We have a friend who charges $20 for every mole he kills and he gets a lot of business around town. He uses harpoon traps exclusively. I've found that the best of this type is the one made by Victor, the one with the long spikes. The trick is to locate the tunnel precisely; it isn't always right under the mound (go figure). Use the flag wire to find the tunnel then set the trap. I picked off two this weekend with these.

The one that works best for me is the Nash choker trap. It's harder to set, but the hit rate is pretty high; if a mole sets it off it's a gonner.

The Easy Set mole eliminator also works good too, and is easy to set.

In this part of the world they eat earthworms as well as grubs so poisoning the grubs won't help.

My wife got mole poison at the local Agway and it works great. :beerchug:

It's small pieces that you put in the holes and they eat them. We started this late winter/early spring and it actually works.

This guy doesn't fool around.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDEira01c0Q